Flash + Software-Defined Storage = Path To The Hybrid Cloud

Flash + Software-Defined Storage = Path To The Hybrid Cloud Jerome McFarland Product Marketing Director, Elastifile Flash Memory Summit 2016 Santa Cla...
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Flash + Software-Defined Storage = Path To The Hybrid Cloud Jerome McFarland Product Marketing Director, Elastifile Flash Memory Summit 2016 Santa Clara, CA

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Agenda §  The Hybrid Cloud Vision §  Storage Requirements §  Flash-Native SDS

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Industry Buzz

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What is the Hybrid Cloud? “A cloud computing environment which uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and thirdparty public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms”

Source: TechTarget

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Why All The Hype? Natural culmination of multiple trends •  •  •  • 

Data explosion Virtualization Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Flash storage

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The Vision

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Sounds great… …so what’s holding us back? Requires true application and data mobility •  Apps and data accessed where needed…for example: •  Big data processing = public cloud •  Final review and analysis = on-premises

Application mobility has emerged… ...but data mobility is still lacking Flash Memory Summit 2016 Santa Clara, CA

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Storage Needs to Evolve Unified Data Access Hybrid Cloud Software-defined solutions Storage Requirements can meet the challenge Cloud Scale Elas